E-Books

Geometric and Numerical Optimal Control

Bernard Bonnard / Jérémy Rouot / Monique Chyba

This book introduces readers to techniques of geometric optimal control as well as the exposure and applicability of adapted numerical schemes. It is based on two real-world applications, which ha...

Public Administration in Europe

This book considers the ways in which public administration (PA) has been studied in Europe over the last forty years, and examines in particular the contribution of EGPA, the European Group for P...

Behavior of Unbounded Post- tensioned Masonry Walls

Reza Hassanli

This book reports on a comprehensive analytical, experimental and numerical study on the flexural response of post-tensioned masonry walls under in-plane loads. It explores an important mechanism ...

Plant Structural Biology: Hormonal Regulations

After decades of dominance of genetics and genomics, the importance of structural biology is growing exponentially in the field of plant biology. The main objectives of this new book series is to ...

Advances in Plant Ecophysiology Techniques

This handbook covers the most commonly used techniques for measuring plant response to biotic and abiotic stressing factors, including: in vitro and in vivo bioassays; the study of root morph...

Viral Hepatitis: Chronic Hepatitis B

This book presents up-to-date, practically oriented information on major topics in chronic hepatitis B. The coverage encompasses epidemiology; diagnosis, including molecular methods; treatment and...

Contemporary Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning of Mathematics

This book is a selection of 15 papers developed by participants in ICME 13 held in Hamburg , presenting insights from the latest research on the andragogy of adult and lifelong learning of mathema...

Psychologie lernen

Hans-Peter Nolting / Peter Paulus

Ein Buch für alle, die eine kompakte Einführung in die »Wissenschaft des Erlebens und Verhaltens« suchen – vom Studierenden bis zum interessierten Laien. Hans-Peter Nolting und Peter Paulus ...

Nanocarbons for Energy Conversion: Supramolecular Approaches

This book focuses on nanocarbons (carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanoporous carbon, and carbon black) and related materials for energy conversion, including fuel cells (predominately proton exchange ...

Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic boo...

Im Fadenkreuz des Killers (FBI Special Agent)

Pete Hackett

Eine brandneue Story aus der Serie "FBI Special Agent". Der New Yorker Ermittler Owen Burke geht im Big Apple auf Gangsterjagd - eindrucksvoll in Szene gesetzt von Top-Autor Pete Hackett. ...

Mörderferien: Das Krimi-Paket für die Ferien

Alfred Bekker

Eine junge Frau verliebt sich und muss erkenen, dass der Mann, mit dem sie ihr Leben teilen will, ein Profi-Killer ist, der sie nach dieser Entdeckung unmöglich am Leben lassen kann. Ein Mann gla...

Schwerter und Magier: Vier Fantasy Abenteuer

Hendrik M. Bekker

Dieses Ebook enthält folgende, auch einzeln lieferbare Bände Die Legende von Wybran Groheim - Stadt der Magier Die Dunkelelbin und die Feuerschale von Sundam Am Ende eines langen Tages Viermal ...

Theoretische Positionen der Stadtsoziologie

Silke Steets / Lars Frers / Lars Meier

Dieses Buch führt in klassische und zeitgenössische Theoriepositionen der Stadtsoziologie ein. Ein klarer Aufbau, grafische und textliche Übersichten, Begriffserläuterungen, Lernkontrollfragen...

Bettnässen, Enuresis nocturna Behandlung mit Homöopathie, Heilpflanzen, Schüsslersalzen und Naturheilkunde

Robert Kopf

Den an einer Enuresis nocturna leidenden Menschen ist ihr Zustand sehr peinlich. Bei vielen geht der Urin völlig unbemerkt ab. Andere verspüren einen plötzlich auftretenden Harndrang, der nicht...

Satellite-Based Earth Observation

The book focuses on the topic of trends and challenges with regards to satellite-based earth observation. Contributors include legal experts in the field and representatives from institutions su...

Agricultural Ethics in East Asian Perspective

This book brings together agricultural ethics scholars from the US, Japan and Taiwan to discuss crucial issues in agricultural ethics and sustainability ethics in comparative context.  Agricu...

Design Principles and Methodologies

Alessandro Freddi / Mario Salmon

This book introduces readers to the core principles and methodologies of product development, and highlights the interactions between engineering design and industrial design. It shows to what ext...

Mechanism Transitions in Publish/Subscribe Systems

Björn Richerzhagen

This book reports on a novel concept of mechanism transitions for the design of highly scalable and adaptive publish/subscribe systems. First, it introduces relevant mechanisms for location-based ...

Introduction to Comparative Political Culture

Dezhi Tong

This book starts with four aspects - subject’s cognition, way of thinking, political value and ideology, conducts comparative studies on political culture. Amid using the concept of political cu...